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John Crowe Ransom's Poetry, by first line

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  • Piazza Piece
    -- I am a gentleman in a dustcoat trying
    To make you hear. Your ears are soft and small
    14 lines
  • Blue Girls
    Twirling your blue skirts, travelling the sward
    Under the towers of your seminary,
    17 lines, 1 comment
  • Dead Boy
    The little cousin is dead, by foul subtraction,
    A green bough from Virginia's aged tree,
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • Winter Remembered
    Two evils, monstrous either one apart,
    Possessed me, and were long and loath at going:
    20 lines
  • Necrological
    The friar had said his paternosters duly
    And scourged his limbs, and afterwards would have slept;
    36 lines
  • Bells For John Whiteside's Daughter
    There was such speed in her little body,
    And such lightness in her footfall,
    19 lines, 2 comments
  • Captain Carpenter
    Captain Carpenter rose up in his prime
    Put on his pistols and went riding out
    64 lines
  • The Equilibrists
    Full of her long white arms and milky skin
    He had a thousand times remembered sin.
    58 lines
  • Painted Head
    By dark severance the apparition head
    Smiles from the air a capital on no
    36 lines
  • Men
    "How many goodly creatures are there here!"
                            Mira
    8 lines
  • The Cloak Model
    "My son," the stranger thus began,
                            And drew me t
    41 lines
  • The Ingrate
                            BY night we looked across my field,
       
    27 lines
  • By The Riverside
    A GREAT green spread of meadow land,
                            (Must rest
    27 lines
  • Wrestling
    AT last came threshing-time, the manly season.
                            W
    32 lines
  • Judith Of Bethulia
    Beautiful as the flying legend of some leopard
    She had not chosen yet her captain, nor Prince
    54 lines
  • Janet Waking
    Beautifully Janet slept
    Till it was deeply morning. She woke then
    39 lines
  • Spectral Lovers
    By night they haunted a thicket of April mist,
    Out of that black ground suddenly come to birth,
    45 lines
  • Conrad In Twilight
    Conrad, Conrad, aren't you old
    To sit so late in your mouldy garden?
    25 lines
  • Prelude To An Evening
    Do not enforce the tired wolf
    Dragging his infected wound homeward
    38 lines
  • Dumb-Bells
    DUMB-BELLS left, dumb-bells right,
                            Swing them ha
    29 lines
  • The Four Roses
    FOUR sisters sitting in one house,
                            I said, these
    15 lines
  • Moonlight
    HE feigned a fine indifference
                            To be so prodigal
    21 lines
  • Vaunting Oak
    He is a tower unleaning. But how he’ll break
    If Heaven assault him with full wind and sleet,
    62 lines
  • Roses
    I ENTERED dutiful, God knows,
                            The room in which
    30 lines
  • The Christian
    I HEARD a story of a sailing man.
                            He was a surly
    20 lines
  • Worship
    I KNOW a quite religious man
                            Who utters praises
    41 lines
  • Sunset
    I KNOW you are not cruel,
                            And you would not will
    86 lines
  • The Lover
    I SAT in a friendly company
                            And wagged my wicked
    33 lines
  • Friendship
    I VIEWED him well, the visible fat fool,
                            And yet
    35 lines
  • The School
    I WAS not drowsy though the scholars droned.
                            Hea
    43 lines
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